Presidential aspirants reach for the highest office to satisfy some yearning for greatness or even immortality.
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.
But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.
I was a dozy boy; I'd like to have been like James Dean, but I was more Arthur Askey - pathetically rebellious in a cheeky, chappy sort of way.
Because," said a boy. "Because why?" asked a young girl. "Because I love you.
I sometimes suspect that half our difficulties are imaginary and that if we kept quiet about them they would disappear.
Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.
So this had been all I wanted, a boy who understood how I felt. Now, though, I sometimes wished for more.
I played trumpet in school once because I joined band because a cute boy played trumpet too. And I was really bad at trumpet.
When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'Oh, that was a big, fat fluke and, boy, was I ever lucky.'
How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.
Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.
Because I see my own boys growing, and I see other children growing and I just have such a connection.
Certainly, when I was a boy, people liked to believe that lawyers were kind of pillars of goodness of the likes of Atticus Finch in 'To Kill a Mockingbird.'
Teenagers would rather text than talk. They feel calls would reveal too much.
Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.
